Wall St. Earnings Expectations: The average estimate of analysts is for net income of $8.63 per share, a rise of 5% from the company’s actual earnings for the same quarter a year ago. During the past three months, the average estimate has moved down from $10.08. Between one and three months ago, the average estimate moved down. It has risen from $8.62 during the last month. Analysts are projecting profit to rise by 11.6% versus last year to $33.21.

Past Earnings Performance: Last quarter, the company missed estimates by $1.53, coming in at profit of $7.35 per share versus a mean estimate of net income of $8.88 per share. In the second quarter, the company beat estimates by 6 cents.

Wall St. Revenue Expectations: Analysts are projecting a rise of 52.4% in revenue from the year-earlier quarter to $12.39 billion.

A Look Back: In the third quarter, profit fell 20.3% to $2.18 billion ($6.53 a share) from $2.73 billion ($8.33 a share) the year earlier, missing analyst expectations. Revenue rose 45.1% to $14.1 billion from $9.72 billion.

Here’s how Google traded following its last earnings report 3 months ago and leading up to its upcoming earnings report this week: